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If you were the goddess reigning over us all

I would desperately, pathetically, devotedly

Drink the air you pumped into our atmosphere

I would dive in streams and love the trees

In an attempt to taste your essence.

In a thousand years I would wage wars in your name

Irrationally and unproductively

Because that’s not what you would ask

And it would not elevate me in your eyes...

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Tea Party In A Fox Hole

Photograph by Michael Nichols

Tea Party In A Fox Hole

I'm enrolled albeit fictitiously

In the School of Udhra

Committed at last to philosophy

Expressed by Udhrite School

Of poets who

"When loving die"

A Bedouin tradition and

It’s complaints

Of singleness and unrest

Of union and disunion

Dogon avatars carry

Duende through the ages

And I ...

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